The Herald - Wednesday, May 22, 1895
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NEWS AND NOTES IN A NUTSHELL.
THE BUSY MAN'S COLUMN.
Oscar Wilde is on trial at the Old Bailey to-day. Mr Justice Wills yesterday refused the application made by Wilde's counsel for the postponement of the trial, therefore a new jury was to enter upon the hearing of evidence this morning. Public interest in the dreadful case is still very intense in London.
Alfred Taylor, the alleged accomplice of Oscar Wilde, has been convicted of an abominable offence at the Old Bailey. The jury failed to agree in regard to another charge, one in which Oscar Wilde was specially concerned, and the Crown will not, in view of Taylor's conviction, persist in pressing the operation of the law any further against the prisoner. Taylor has been remanded for sentence.